http://mac.appstorm.net/how-to/os-x/30-super-secret-os-x-features-and-shortcuts/

Some interesting tips and tricks for Mac OS X

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/5435/terminal-tips-and-tricks-for-mac-os-x

It got really annoying for me to see how my terminal prompt kept changing when I connected my Macbook from work. I know I can easily fix this by setting my prompt in my .profile file, but I wanted to find out why this was happening.

It turns out the …

I was working on a php project which involved in uploading a tab delimited file and then processing it with php on a unix webserver to insert data into a database. The file was produced on a windows machine and so it had windows line endings. I used this trick …

Ever tried to copy or move a bunch of files on unix/linux from one location to another and see this error message spit out back at you??

$ cp /var/www/* /var/tmp  
-bash: /bin/cp: Argument list too long

UNIX find to the rescue…

$ find /var/www -type f …